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$$$ I'm babysitting for a fellow is in a TRP acct, limited to TRP funds. If/when the time comes, I'll move him from junk TUHYX into global multi-sector PRSNX. Good performance history, there. We've both owned it in the past, too. I'm hoping to be ab…
1 yr Treasuries down to 4%. A bit faster than I expected. Bond yields want Fed to go 50 bps on Wednesday. Should we expect a violent reaction to a 25 bps FF rate cut?
Mr. Market always overreacts. I've got a limit order in, to buy some regional …
No 2nd debate:
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4876997-trump-rejects-debate-harris/
He's just throwing stuff against the wall, to see what might stick.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4877565-donald-trump-overtime-pay-taxes/
My Republican friend just began to tune-out after 15 minutes into the debate. Shut it off after 30 minutes. Disgusted, but can't go Dem. I have different reasons for eschewing both.
Neither directly answered all of the questions put to them. Trump answered NONE. He turned everything into an off-topic tangent. I saw the same PBS report he mentioned with all the Haitians in Springfield, Ohio. He repeated the absurd craziness abou…
Union Prez has huevos. Good for him. "Recommended" the deal to Union members, but "it's up to THEM to vote to approve." I think he already knows the outcome. Can you say "Airbus," boys and girls? I just KNEW you could. ;)
L. Cheney and dad are correct----- apart from the bluest blue State, Hawaii. Repugnants and others have zero chance to get our 4 Electoral votes.
I could wax theological, but would change no one's mind here. Very often, those who argue against God…
Who cares about the 4% "rule" when most bond funds are paying that and more, maybe much more? Just take the bond interest instead of eroding the asset base by selling anything.
brilliant, really.
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I would advise younger investors who…
Harris can just disavow the joke-endorsement from Putin. He's counting on a stupid American voting public to take it seriously and run the other way. Too many American voters are indeed heinously stoopid.
Google headline news today is that W has no intention of giving his endorsement to either candidate.
I guess that's the most that can be expected.
Just watched "W." All kinds of familiar faces in the cast! Josh Brolin nailed the "W" persona, I think…
A common RMD table starts at 3.77% at 73, is 4.06% at 75, and increases rapidly, 6.25% at 85, 11.24% at 95,..., 50% at 120+ (who is that for?).
However, portfolio withdrawals should be based on total portfolios, taxable, tax-deferred, tax-free.
Well…
I think RMDs will require more than 4-5% withdrawal rate for those who are subject to RMDs. But the $$$ can just be reinvested, if desired. If you want to leave some $$$ behind, forget about 4 or 5 or 20%. Make it 3% or lower, if you can manage it. …
Alright. Still makes me want to vomit that he is in his own class of criminals. And it makes me want to vomit even more that half the country supports that Orange Germ.
Glad I started a holding in WCPNX Weitz Core-Plus. It was the only thing in the portfolio which was UP on Friday. A bloodbath sort of day. Wish my holding in WCPNX were bigger. Still holding a lotta junk. Quite un-volatile. That aspect pleases me a …
Important stuff. His are brass. Good for him. His name is written in the Book of Life.
EDIT TO ADD: We've just lately had an after-church workshop to assist us in planning funeral or memorial arrangements for ourselves. Also, there are some paramete…
Again: double standard. Whatever the Judge does will have political implications, but none of it is his doing. The politics of it is extraneous to the crimes of which the Orange Infection has been found GUILTY AS CHARGED.
No computer, last week. In the shop for new battery and OS upgrade.
06 Sept, 2024:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2024-09-06/bloomberg-real-yield-09-06-2024
I just came across this from The Guardian:
In his decision, Judge Juan Merchan wrote that the “court is a fair, impartial and apolitical institution”.
He went on to add that delaying Trump’s sentencing should “dispel any suggestion” that he tried “…
I have to reluctantly agree that the judge's concern about conflating the political environment with the judicial environment is the honorable stand on this situation.
Unlike the Supreme Court, he is trying to keep well clear of influencing the pol…
I do not see high correlation between intelligence and education or age. ( I have learned more life lessons from small kids and animals than from people who are older than I am.)
True.
Yet, @hank's point is valid. We all grow our own a priori assump…
He has all the best words! C'mon! What are you worried about? LOL. The Orange schmuck. It is crazy-nuts, as already noted above, that half the country still adores that FELON-CLOWN. Heads full of "deep state" conspiracies. Cripes.
Damn straight. Buncha very sensible stuff in there. Thanks. I sent it on to a friend whose money I babysit. He's apt to read sensationalized junk and let it freak him out. I "talk him down." All his stuff is in very reliable TRP funds.
Liz, Adam, yes. Solid. They would not upset me, if selected. Latest generic ballot has Harris up +3.2%. But of course, the election must be won State by State. Foolishness.
